The invention relates to an apparatus for the production of cast metal strip of amorphous and/or compact grained structures. To enable the strip to be coiled on reels at high strip speeds, the strip 6 is guided at the outlet of the casting apparatus 1-6 having a casting wheel 4 over a first and second strip guide channel. The first strip guide channel is formed by at least one cooling wheel 9, 11 ...

PURPOSE:To simplify and lighten the whole device by externally feeding voltage and electrifying electrodes on both sides of a piezo-electric body causing said piezo-electric body to be deformed, and bringing friction boards into close contact with each other by the pressing force to said friction boards due to the displaced quantity of the whole pressing means and limiting a differential movement....

PURPOSE:To ensure high stability and sufficient driving force by providing a means of detecting a steering angle and vehicle speed and a means of controlling the down shift of an automatic transmission at least relying on said steering angle and vehicle speed. CONSTITUTION:It is judged whether the traveling condition at the present point of time is in a zone in which gear change to a lower gear st...

PURPOSE:To accurately judge an advance direction and prevent the occurrence of engine stall by judging that a gear shift direction is the same as the advance direction when the engine speed in the half-connected condition of a clutch is increased more than the engine speed in the disconnected condition, while judging that their directions are reverse when said engine speed in the half-connected co...

PURPOSE:To prevent the slipping of a belt, in a two-position changeover of a forward/backward changeover part, by returning the forward/backward changeover part to the neutral position at the time of engine stop. CONSTITUTION:A forward/backward changeover part 3 is actuated by a changeover part 120 and a hydraulic servo 130 of a hydraulic actuator 116. A returning means 170 by which the forward/ba...

PURPOSE:To prevent the slipping of a belt, in a two-position changeover of a forward/backward changeover part, by providing a returning means by which the forward/backward changeover part is returned to the neutral position when an engine is stopped and line pressure is caused to disappear. CONSTITUTION:A forward/backward changeover part 3 is actuated by a changeover part 120 and a hydraulic servo...

PURPOSE:To make it possible to improve the heat exchange efficiency, to recover unstable waste heat energy and to supply stable one to the thermal load side by providing a waste heat recovery system and a feed water heat storage system heat-exchangeable through a heat exchanger, also providing a heat storage tank on the downstream of the heat exchanger, and utilizing heat storage water for warming...

A procedure for shifting a transmission composed of several gear units in which a number of synchronizer linkages are provided, is so designated that during a gear ratio change in the last gear unit, that is in that unit to which the speed of all preceding gear units must be brought, all shift linkages are initially released. Following this, the shift linkages are re-established beginning with the...

Poly(p-phenylene-2,5,furandicarbonamide), with an inherent viscosity of at least 1.5 dl/g measured at 30 &loz& C on a 5 g/dl solution in 98 % sulphuric acid, is prepared by performing the condensation at 100 &loz& C at most and using a molar excess of triphenylphosphite of 1-20 % in respect to the total amounts of p-phenyleediamine and 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid which are started from. Anisotropic...

PURPOSE:To obtain a noncrosslinked foam excellent in flexibility, sealing property, heat resistance, heat creep resistance sanitariness, etc., and useful as a packing material, by mixing a 1-butene polymer with a propylene polymer. CONSTITUTION:100 pts.wt. total of 72-98wt% 1-butene polymer (A) of an MFR of 0.05-50g/10min and m.p. >=100 deg.C, comprising 80-100mol% 1-butene and 20-0mol% 2-20C alph...

A device for discontinuing and automatically restoring the operational function of a spring brake actuator comprises a piston (9) with a piston rod (10) and a spring (13) actuating the piston and piston rod in a working direction for brake application at falling brake fluid pressure on the piston, a slitted, resilient locking ring (15) being arranged in grooves (16, 17) facing each other in the pi...

A viscoelastic composition is disclosed, made of a particulate weight-adding agent dispersed within a viscoelastic material. The composition is formed of at least about 85% plasticizer and particulate weight-adding agent, and the ratio of weight-adding agent to plasticizer of at least about 3:1. A viscoelastic or soft weight is formed by said composition.

A method for the preservation of activated sludge of a waste water purification stage, wherein preservation of such activated sludge is accomplished by flushing with a gas mixture containing at least carbon dioxide and a low oxygen content.

PURPOSE:To receive various kinds of steels in the same ladle and to reduce the consumption unit of refractories by applying a surface lining material suited to the kind of the steels to be received to the surface of the relatively inexpen sive subsurface lining on the inside surface of the molten steel ladle to the thickness at which the ladle withstands many times of molten steel receiving. CONST...

PURPOSE:To eliminate differences in the cooling or heating efficiency among multiple cooling medium circuits regardless of the location of the outside unit installation by disposing at least one heat exchanger, installed in a housing, and through which the multiple cooling medium circuits pass. CONSTITUTION:An outside heat exchanger 12 contains two cooling medium pipes 14L, 15R and an outside heat...

1. Compounds of the formula see diagramm : EP0000330,P30,F1 wherein R1 and R2 each represent a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic or mixed aliphatic-cycloaliphatic hydrocarbon radical which has 11-21 C atoms and which is also optionally substituted by oxygen functions, R3 represents hydrogen or the radical R1 -CO-O-CH2 -, where R1 has the same meaning, and X represents a natural aliphatic amino ...

PURPOSE:To perform sure bonding without both excessive dissolution of a filter membrane and damage due to pressing and to enhance liquid tightness of a bonded part, by applying a polymer adhesive containing a solvent common to a supporter and the filter membrane to a pasting part and overlapping them and thereafter removing the solvent to bond them. CONSTITUTION:In case of bonding a supporter and ...

PURPOSE:To permit the lamination of thermal fusion bonding resin onto a heat shrinkable layer sheet material continuously and improve productivity, by a method wherein the drawn heat shrinkable layer sheet material and a thermal fusion bonding layer sheet material are pinched between opposingly arranged cooling roll and heating roll and are cooled, then, are heated to bond them by fusion while con...

An improved monitoring device for externally monitoring labour contractions preceding childbirth which does not require the use of a belt is disclosed consisting of a transducer assembly (42) removably fixed to a base (12) adhesively attached to the abdomen of the woman.